Using the V5 Robot Brain User Interface – VEX Library

V5 Robot Brain - User Interface

Simple touchscreen user interfaces are familiar to almost everyone, making V5 more approachable. The V5 Robot Brain features a 4.25” full color touch screen with 480 x 272 pixels.

V5 Brain powered on, with the screen showing the Home menu.

User interface features include the following:

Select and run one of 8 user programs
Run built-in VEX programs
Accessing program wiring lists
Accessing program controls
Run practice matches
Change languages
Select themes and backlighting
Screen rotation, and much more...

V5 Brain screen with a user project running. The screen shows a colorful geometric pattern drawn on a checkered background to indicate the range of graphics that users can create.

Programmers can also make use of the touch screen with the ability to draw pixels, lines, rectangles and circles, along with line color, width, and fill control. Multi-sized, multilingual fonts in any color are built in. User programs draw fast and efficiently on dual buffered internal memory, and the FPGA handles screen refresh at an incredible 60 Hz.

Flexibility can be found in every aspect of the V5 Robot Brain:

Smart motors
Smart sensors
Analog sensors
Digital sensors
microSD Card expansion
On-board diagnostics
Device wiring lists
Controller maps
Automatic wiring check
Automatic device firmware updates

Two V5 Brain screenshots are shown side by side to demonstrate the range of dashboard menus available. The Device Info and Smart Motor menus are shown as examples.

Dashboards are one of the most notable V5 advancements. There is a built in dashboard for every connected sensor and device, from switches and potentiometers all the way up to motors and the battery. Dashboards provide an incredible teaching and diagnostic capability, allowing you to see in real time what the sensor is actually doing, and what the data for that action looks like.